Posted on 10/19/2011 7:30:47 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Obama Administration spent nearly half of the $38.6 billion ($17.2 billion) set aside for his green energy programs and was only able to create 3,545 permanent green jobs. This comes out to a staggering $4,853,000 per job.
Now we find out that the Obama Energy Department is going back and changing solar energy press releases. CNBC reported:
Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.
The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program — the same program that has been the center of controversy surrounding the failed solar company Solyndra.
Both were changed to remove the name of a company that has received negative press attention in recent days, SunPower, and replace it with the name of another company, NRG Energy [NRG 20.89 -0.14 (-0.67%) ].
Generally, it is not considered correct procedure to revise old press releases retroactively on the Web. More commonly, government agencies will issue a new press release with a current date explaining any changes that have occurred.
In the April case, the Department of Energy loan programs office announced in a press release on April 12 “conditional commitment” to a $1.187 billion loan guarantee to support the California Valley Solar Ranch project, which it said was “sponsored by SunPower Corporation.”
But that release was later changed on one website to say the project was “sponsored by NRG Energy.” The date on the release remained “April 12, 2011.”
Ping.
Un. Effing. Believable.
4 damned million per job.
Un. Effing. Believable.
Oh, my mistake. It was nearly 5 damned million per job.
Oh well. Easy come, easy go.
What do you mean Winston? It has always read “NRG Energy”.
Plenty of experience with BC’s why not press releases?
Amazing. This would be huge news if a Republican administration tried to pull something like this - literally erasing and replacing history with something else.
He who controls the past controls the future
I worked for the DOE for more than 10 years. There is so much waste there it was unbelievable.
Welcome to 1984, it just took a little longer to arrive. As we now see the Government covering its tracks and releasing cleaned news. Big Brother will make it illegal to criticize the Government. We have the 5 minutes of hate already on Occupy Wall Street. Orwell was a prophet, but now we live the nightmare. Ayn Rand was a prophetess as well.
Down the Memory Hole. This Administration has no scruples, so it will try any kind of a dodge. I wonder why they find it necessary to lie so much?
More cover-ups then imaginable.
Another one for the ‘list’.
Thanks for posting, Hojczyk. It’s just revisionist history from the crony-socialists/neo-fascists. It’s all good. /HEAVY SARCASM
FUBO
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
I don’t doubt that a bit.
“Welcome to 1984, it just took a little longer to arrive. As we now see the Government covering its tracks and releasing cleaned news. Big Brother will make it illegal to criticize the Government. We have the 5 minutes of hate already on Occupy Wall Street. Orwell was a prophet, but now we live the nightmare. Ayn Rand was a prophetess as well.”
Good post, King_Corey. Thanks. Already happening here...
http://dailycapitalist.com/2011/04/12/start-crying-for-argentina/
(excerpts)...
Now that they have set off on the hyperinflationary highway, they deny they have inflation and deny that monetary policy has anything to do with it. To prove it they are punishing private forecasters who contradict the government’s false reporting by levying heavy fines on them. The government says they only have 10% annual inflation, but private economists say it’s at least 25%.
There is no question that Mrs. de Kirchner is acting illegally in violation of their constitution. But when has the mere rule of law ever hindered socialist-fascist autocrats.
“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand
“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.”
“But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.” - Frederic Bastiat
By M. Frederic Bastiat
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause—it is seen. The others unfold in succession—they are not seen: it is well for us if they are foreseen. Between a good and a bad economist this constitutes the whole difference—the one takes account of the visible effect; the other takes account both of the effects which are seen and also of those which it is necessary to foresee. Now this difference is enormous, for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favourable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse. Hence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
Bookmarking actual evidence for allowing full, non-excerpted, backups for fair use, news review to prevent re-writing of history. Not the first example. ;-)
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